The Zombie Survival Thread!

[The Reality Salesman01]

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OK, here's how this goes. Answer the information given.

What kind of survivor are you?

1. Leader
   
2. Secondary leader/organizer
   
3. Scavenger
   
4. Forager
   
5. Hunter
   
6. Doctor/Medic
   
7. Guard
   
8. Lone wolf
   
9. Helpless, hapless victim
   

What is your approach to ZoApoc life?

1. Humanist: Death Before Dishonor; save everyone possible, or die trying.
   
2. Nihilist: Dishonor Before Death; Pragmatism, if others need help, they need to help themselves.
   
3. Pragmatist: Sacrifice Is Just Natural; Survival is our only goal; the strong survive, the weak perish.
   
4. Desperate optimist: It's Always Darkest Before Dawn; The next city will have something. And if not that one, then the next.
   
5. Defeated Pessimist: Quoth the Raven, Nevermore; The world has ended, there is no hope, why even bother fighting? Let it all end.
   
6. Lone wolf: Others Only Slow Down Number One; It's every many for himself.
   
7. Psychopath: EVERYONE IS A ZOMBIE, JUST OUT TO GET ME!! The mind has snapped; you will not live long, but then, neither will anyone near you.
   
8. Degenerate: What Isn't Mine And What Is Yours...I Will Make Mine; Prey upon others, sustain yourself at their expense; rape, murder, theft; indulge your bestial side.
   
9. Victim: When One Dies, It's A Tragedy. But When A Million Die, It's Just A Statistic; One of the ZoApoc's many, many billions victims.
   

What is your preferred style of combat?

1. Melee: Your hands, the plank of wood, the combat knife, the sword, the baseball bat.
   
2. Short-range: Shotguns, submachine guns, carbines, thrown spears, crossbows...
   
3. Mid-range: Assault rifles and carbines, hunting rifles, battle rifles, light machine guns...
   
4. Long range: One shot, one kill.
   
5. Explosives: Homemade, military-issue, jury-rigged, wired, remote controlled, fuse-primed...basically if it explodes, it's what you want.
   
6. Unarmed: You're either too busy, or too useless, to be armed.
   
7. Heavy weapons: rocket lauchers, LMGs, miniguns, the bigger the better.
   
8. Traps: Detect them, evade them, annihilate them...your choice.
   

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More to come!

1,3,2/8

I couldn't decide on the last one. Being an F-18 weapons tech, I see requirement to have to choose. I want to set my traps, but I also want to be able to pick them off should they evade my trip-wire.

p.s.
I keep a S.O.G. Tomahawk strapped to the driver's side roll bar in my jeep...just in case a Travon Martin or Zombie equivalent wants to dance.

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Now for the meat!

I can't pick just one of each!

[*]Traps and tricks: Plan for the horde, use the stragglers and outliers to create obstacles and bottlenecks.
[*]Blow 'em to bits: Utilize explosives or the environment to decimate large groups to thin their numbers and spread them out.

[*]Group survival: Maximize number of survivors in group; every person saved is another source of productivity.

[*]Moderate: In it for the longer haul, I carry several weapons and/or a fairly respectable quantity of ammunition, tools, and/or general equipment.

[*]Medium vehicle: SUVs, pickup trucks, etc. High capacity, more durability, some offroad capability, but at the tradeoff of maneuverability and even more fuel consumption. (My fucking Jeep Wrangler 4x4!)

[*]Scavenging: The PoApoc world is littered with essentials, and I know just where to find them.
[*]Jury-rigging/scrapping: One man's junk is another man's means of getting by.

[*]Food and water: Can't live without them.
[*]Medical supplies: When the situation becomes much more complicated for surviving, I want to be ready for the maladies and injuries that will inevitably happen.
[*]Munitions: Guns guns guns, bullets bangs and booms: The best way to survive is to project as much lethal force as you can.
[*]Fuel: Gotta stay mobile over long ranges, and the world's enormous reserves of energy supplies are no longer being used; what is left over from the apocalypse is what I need.

(if I can use it, it's coming to base)
[*]Tools and equipment: Fix it, break it, open it, lock it, trip it, bypass it, manipulate it, build it.